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What has made you either say "HOLY SH!T" (Or some other phrase when you are scared or have messed up) when something major has gone wrong during a PC Build or anything else related to PCs? A few minutes ago, I was reinstalling my GTX 760 after cleaning it, and a HUGE yellowish spark flew from the card directly to my case, and I thought for sure the whole system was dead. But, somehow, it isn't! Anyways, thanks. :)

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I remember that I somehow made it to where my $300 motherboard wouldn't turn on. I was terrified, then I though about resetting the BIOS using a jumper as the CMOS battery wouldn't do anything. That was one of the most terrifying days with this build.

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I was testing out a new build before I put it in the case and after at least 10 minutes of sitting in the bios I realized the PSU fan was facing downwards onto my table. I shit myself when I realized.

 

Least I didnt set my house of fire or some shit lmao

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Not really about screwing up or anything but my jaw literally dropped the first time I installed a SSD, and windows booted up in seconds.

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Oh, and another time I realized my GPU was idling at 67 degrees Celsius. Glad I saw that before trying to game.

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When I accidentally formatted my 2 TB hard drive yesterday...... I'm currently trying to recover my files and the file system structure of those specific few I actually need to keep.....

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Just now, Dan Castellaneta said:

I've said "holy shit" to people with... well... questionable PCs.

Speaking about questionable PC's, once I moved into UAH, I checked out craigslist and saw a PC more terrifying than my own.

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COMPUTER: Mobile Battlestation  |  CPU: INTEL I7-8700k |  Motherboard: Asus z370-i Strix Gaming  | GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 FTW ACX 3.0 | Cooler: Scythe Big Shuriken 2 Rev. b |  PSU: Corsair SF600 | HDD: Samsung 860 evo 1tb

 

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Another time actually, I was repairing a computer and when I opened the case up its was absolutely caked in dust. I took a measuring cup, swept out all the dust and packed it down in the cup. it reached the 1 1/2 cup line.

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When I opened my dads 7 year old pc and found 768 ml of dust and a pentium 4. 

My life

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I found a cockroach nest on my cpu cooler. never wanna clean my pc ever again.

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When i went from an C2D E6600 with a GTX 8800 ultra to a I5 750 with a HD5850 and an Intel X25-m SSD..

The performance gain was so insane my left testikel twitched ... 

Let's agree to disagree

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43 minutes ago, RektSkrubs said:

What has made you either say "HOLY SH!T" (Or some other phrase when you are scared or have messed up) when something major has gone wrong during a PC Build or anything else related to PCs? A few minutes ago, I was reinstalling my GTX 760 after cleaning it, and a HUGE yellowish spark flew from the card directly to my case, and I thought for sure the whole system was dead. But, somehow, it isn't! Anyways, thanks. :)

when I was told that ctrl+t will bring back any web page you closed.

 

edit : crl+shift+t

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The first time I played Bioshock Infinite on my newly built (at the time) gtx970 equipped PC after I had only ever played it on my Xbox 360. Also when I saw how cool the gigabyte cards looked in the flesh. I never knew that something you put inside a closed metal box could look so good.

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28 minutes ago, g12601 said:

Well I was researching some stuff for a future build and then I came across this.

 

i saw that too

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8 minutes ago, givingtnt said:

when I was told that ctrl+t will bring back any web page you closed.

actually, it's ctrl+shift+t. ctrl+t just opens a new tab.

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1 minute ago, terrytek said:

actually, it's ctrl+shift+t. ctrl+t just opens a new tab.

uh whoops, yeah

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If I can broaden this to just general use of that phrase instead of only panicked moments, I'd say when I just picked up my new xbox one controller for the first time :D OMG! Makes the 360 one feel like a toy!  

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52 minutes ago, Slottr said:

I was testing out a new build before I put it in the case and after at least 10 minutes of sitting in the bios I realized the PSU fan was facing downwards onto my table. I shit myself when I realized.

 

Least I didnt set my house of fire or some shit lmao

I'm pretty sure unless the fan was not able to get any possible air, it wouldn't have caused a problem.

48 minutes ago, Slottr said:

Another time actually, I was repairing a computer and when I opened the case up its was absolutely caked in dust. I took a measuring cup, swept out all the dust and packed it down in the cup. it reached the 1 1/2 cup line.

I've seen worse. I was fixing an old beige 90's pc, and I was able to take a ruler, and everything was covered in literally 1 inch of dust.

43 minutes ago, terrytek said:

I found a cockroach nest on my cpu cooler. never wanna clean my pc ever again.

Install GTX 480, Problem solved! Roaches can't live on Venus! 

18 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

If I can broaden this to just general use of that phrase instead of only panicked moments, I'd say when I just picked up my new xbox one controller for the first time :D OMG! Makes the 360 one feel like a toy!  

You might need this

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1 minute ago, RektSkrubs said:

You might need this

Why?  You do know it's for my PC, right? :P

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1 minute ago, RektSkrubs said:

thank god...

Don't worry, I would never... *shudders*

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